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Pixelsumo is a site devoted to sonic art, audiovisual fusion, physical interaction, open sourcei technologies, hacking video game culture, responsive environments & installations.

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Chris O’Shea is a creative technologist and electronic artist based in London. His interests are in creating physical audiovisual environments using open source processes and appropriated technology.

I think this is an interesting extract of Stephen Heppell's blogi after he became involved with shaping the specification for the 2012 Olypmic Media Centre.  It is a good illustration of the challenges we face in terms of designing a new fit for purpose new media space for 2009 and beyond.

http://www.heppell.net/weblog/stephen/

Prof Stephen Heppell is an inspirational speaker, thinker, policy former looking at moving learning forwards.He also head up www.heppell.net

Ive been meaning to tell you about the most amazing and modest artist i heard last week at We Love Technology 2 in Huddersfield organised by blink media.

His work is amazing and he must have the patience of a saint to work it all out.  He says his work is about trying to understand how humans adapt to their environment and in so doing trying to understand the world better himself.

Julius Popp is an interactive artist from Leipzig, Germany, who has developed a technological device to make a waterfall of a liquid screen. Each drop of water is a falling pixeli. This technology also allows big three dimensional installations to permit various uses of this work in such areas as those of publicity and the commercial events. to find out more watch  this short documentary.

Delicate Boundaries is a beautiful project by Chris Sugrue.

Delicate Boundaries, a work by Chris Sugrue, uses human touch to dissolve the barrier of the computer screen. Using the body as a means of exchange, the system explores the subtle boundaries that exist between foreign systems and what it might mean to cross them. Lifelike digitali animations swarm out of their virtuali confinement onto the skini of a hand or arm when it makes contact with a computer screen creating an imaginative world where our bodies are a landscape for digital life to explore.

Digg is a useri-driven social content website where all submitted content can be voted on by over a million users. As well as navigating the articles by a list in order of popularity, articles can be viewed graphically as circles which readers swarm around, so users can see a visual representation of site activity.  The headlines, paths and articles and other users appear and disappear like microscopic organisms.

http://labs.digg.com/swarm

Future Scenarios for education paper in the age of new technologies, published by futurelab

Opening Education report: 2020 and beyond
Exploring predictions about developments in digitali technologies over the next 13 years, this report sets out some future scenarios and raises fundamental questions for educators on the nature of learning and knowledge in a world where technology is invisibly embedded in everything we do.

Full report downloadable

www.rhizome.org/commissions/2006.rhiz

"Steve” is a collaborative research project exploring the potential for useri-generated descriptions of the subjects of works of art to improve access to museum collections and encourage engagement with cultural content. They are a group of volunteers, primarily from art museums, who share a common interest in improving access to their collections. They are concerned about barriers to public access to online museum information. Participation in steve is open to anyone with a contribution to make to developing their collective knowledge, whether they formally represent a museum or not